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Russia issues arrest warrants for some Kosovo police officers, Qalaj: To be treated seriously by the state

Russia issues arrest warrants for some Kosovo police officers, Qalaj: To be treated seriously by the state

A 2019 feud with Kosovo has not left Russia in oblivion. This is because this country has issued arrest warrants against two senior leading officials of the Kosovo Police and some other members.

Dukagjini Television has learned that these two senior officials are the head of the Special Operative Unit in Pristina, Besart Ahmeti, and Alban Jetullahu, chief of operations in the Rapid Intervention Unit.

Dukagjin has asked the Police about this issue, but so far has not received confirmation.


This action of the Russian state has its roots in an action by the Kosovo Police against smuggling in the north, during May five years ago.

Ahmeti and Jetullahu, who at that time was the leader of the Special Intervention Unit, together with other colleagues had arrested several people, among whom was an UNMIK official with Russian citizenship.

During that time, the General Director of the Kosovo Police was Rashit Qalaj. He has the case quite fresh.

"It was a United Nations official who, being actively in charge of the citizens and gangs that had blocked the roads, led them with the United Nations car, until a moment when there were trees on the road and then the special units normally they stopped him", said Rashit Qalaj, former director of the Police.

Qalaj said that the state should immediately deal with this issue because the consequences that these policemen may suffer from this arrest warrant, according to him, are not simple.

"The state of Kosovo must treat it seriously, it must be held accountable by UNMIK, I think that this mission also has a role in putting these policemen on the Interpol list because the policemen, especially the superior ones, are specialized and they have different training in different states and may become the object of a stop at any border", he said.

With the issuance of this arrest warrant, Russia has requested that these Kosovar police officers be included in INTERPOL's wanted list. /Dukagini/